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25 January 2010

The UK housing crisis in numbers

Public spending cuts could put 1.25 million more people on waiting lists for affordable housing

By Samira Shackle

As the two main political parties compete to say who can cut what fastest, the National Housing Federation (NHF) has joined the chorus of voices calling for their sector to be protected. It warned today that the government will fail to meet even half its target of building a million affordable homes by 2020 if the housing budget is not exempted from public spending cuts.

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